Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-06-24
THE SISTERS SCHOOL
The Closing Exercises of st. Margnegade
Academy Yesterday-The -!Gtle, Depart
Programme Carr't6e G. A. R., of

Programme Carrit6e G. A. R., of
action and utterances have
+. West Rdorsed by the Tribune and more
-eeently by the Des Moines G. A. R.
Post-he, Tuttle, being present-in set
resolutions, which are calculated to cause
blush upon the cheek of every right
minded citizen, be he soldier or civilian,
Democrat or Republican. Two of the
said resolutions, framed by the said Tut
tie, read as follows,
Resolved, That a proper regard for COM
mon decency and for the dignity of the OFF,
cial position he now fills should have caused
Grover Cleveland to see that he cannot eI-
pect to be kindly greeted by Union soldiers,
after his attacks upon them, their wives and
their children in his malicious vetoes of 119
pension bills, in which with satanic glee be
so grossly insulted every Union soldier, and
1t would seem to US he should have sufficient
self. respect not to attempt to crowd him.
self before the gaze of those who utterly
and unalterably despise him.
ResOlUed, That if Grover Cleveland and
his friends insist upon using the prestige of
the Grand Army of the Republic to obtain
an audience. that he send a substitute, and
if possible the person who represented him
in the army during the war. While we re-
spect the Office he fills, we must still be al
lowed to say that we have no kind feeling
for its present soldier-hating occupant.
Here the President of the Great Re-
public is charged with lacking Common
decency" His public acts of sworn duty
are characterized as malicious vetoes oI
pension bills, in which he, with satanic
glee, insulted every Union SOLDIER" not
only impugning his motive, but twitting
him with sending substitute to the army
and insulting him by suggesting that he
send that substitute to st. Louis if he,
the "soldier-hating occupant" OF the
Presidential Office, "must crowd himself
before the gaze of those who utterly and
unalterably despise him."
The violent and indecent language oI
these resolutions betrays Tuttle as their
author, and clearly indicates their parti-
san motive and purpose. The purpose OF
the attack is to prostitute the G. A. R.
organization to partisan ends in the in
terest of James G. Blaine, who not only
hired substitute, but was mean enough,
subsequently, to beg his city to refund
the money to him, unlawfully without a
shadow OF right in law or equity.
And this indecent assault is made upon
President Cleveland, whose Administra-
ton has done more for the soldiers than
any previous one. Tens of thousands OF
pensions, long delayed by Republican
Administrations, have been promptly
granted, under Cleveland, to worthy
veterans whose claims had been, in
many instances, rejected finally" under
Republican rule.
Never before were our pension laws so
literally administered The veterans
know this: the whole country knows it,
and vet a few blatherskites, like futile
and the New York Tribune, for partisan
ends, insult, traduce and threaten with
insult and injury the President of the
United States, because he is a Democrat
and has respected his oath of office !
Truly, whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad.